BMW Car2Car project lifts end-of-life vehicle material reuse rate to 51% under expanded recycling processes

Reuters2026/08/10 13:23

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BMW’s Car2Car recycling project lifted the share of end-of-life vehicle materials reusable in new industrial applications to 51% from 6% under enhanced sorting.
Metals drove the gain: steel potential rose to 81% from 1%, aluminum to 52% from 23%, copper to 68% from 48%.
Steel recycling improved by reducing copper contamination via additional scrap sorting; the process moved into industrial production with a patent application filed.
A Leipzig plant field test produced over 100,000 series parts from recovered steel, installed in vehicles; trial covered 433 vehicles across 60 BMW models.
Plastics, glass lagged; wider rollout depends on investment in disassembly, sorting, recycling infrastructure, supported by tighter regulatory frameworks.

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BMW Car2Car project lifts end-of-life vehicle material reuse rate to 51% under expanded recycling processes

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